DU student stabbed to death at home in Tilak Nagar

New Delhi: Police suspect that a man known to a 21-year-old Delhi University SOL student stabbed her multiple times to death at her home in the Tilak Nagar area because he was enraged over her talking to another person, an official said on Thursday.

The accused, identified as Imran (26), is absconding and police have formed about 15 teams to apprehend him, they said. Police said the victim was a second-year student at the School of Open Learning (SOL) and lived with her family in a building near Mangla Hospital in West Delhi. According to the investigation, the woman, who is from a different community, knew the accused — a former gym trainer who is currently unemployed — for about a year and a half. Police said the two had also met at a hotel on August 20.

They alleged the accused had been angry with the woman for the last two months because she was talking to someone else. On Wednesday evening, the accused went to the woman’s house when she was alone. An argument broke out between the two, after which he allegedly attacked her with a knife and fled, police said. CCTV footage showed the accused entering the building around 5:40 pm, a police source said.

Tilak Nagar Police Station received a PCR call regarding the stabbing of a girl at 7:24 pm, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) Hareshwar V Swami. Police said the house help discovered the girl lying injured on the second floor of the building and informed her family. Police were then called, and they rushed her to the hospital, where doctors declared the woman dead on arrival. A post-mortem examination will ascertain the exact cause and nature of the injuries, police said. The DCP said the crime and forensic teams conducted photography and inspection.

“A murder case has been registered based on the statement of the deceased’s brother, and an investigation is underway. He said his sister knew a boy named Aqib alias Imran, who resides in the nearby area,” the officer said. The brother suspects that Aqib committed the crime, he said. Aman, a friend of the victim, told reporters that the deceased was the youngest of four siblings.

“Her elder sister called me from Chandigarh and asked me to reach their home. She told me that her sister had been stabbed. I called my friends to take her to the hospital. When I reached there, an ambulance was already there. Later on, the hospital pronounced her dead,” he said. Aman said the accused had been pursuing her for a long time and that her family had informed him about the alleged harassment. Family members of the deceased were seen waiting outside the hospital during the post-mortem examination.